FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for World War II
On December 1, 1941, the head of the Far East Division of U.S. Naval
Intelligence wrote in his report to head of the Pacific Fleet: “War
between the United States and Japan will begin in the nearest future.”
The Report never made it to the commander’s desk, because it had
been ‘accidentally’ detained by his superiors. Early in December, Army
Intelligence knew that the diplomats at the Japanese Embassy in
Washington had been ordered to destroy all codes, and to return to
Japan. Washington also knew that Japan had ordered all of its
merchant ships home, because they would be needed to transport
soldiers and supplies for the war. On December 5, Col. Sadtler from U.
S. Military Communications transmitted the following telegram to his
superiors, based on information he had received: “War with Japan will
begin immediately; exclude all possibility of a second Port Arthur.”
This telegram never got to its destination.In 1932, the U.S. Navy had conducted tests at Pearl Harbor which
indicated that it was vulnerable to an attack from sixty miles away
without being able to detect it. Admiral J. O. Richardson, Commander-
in-Chief of the Pacific fleet, wanted the fleet withdrawn to the west
coast of the United States, because they were inadequately manned for
war, and because the area was too exposed. It was not done. In
January, 1941, Richardson was relieved of his command. It was later
revealed that Roosevelt wanted him to create a naval blockade around
Japan, to provoke them into a response, so the United States could
declare war. He refused to do it, saying it was an act of war.Besides knowing about the security weaknesses at the base in Pearl
Harbor, and having previous knowledge about the impending attack,
Roosevelt guaranteed a slaughter by ordering that the planes be
grouped in circles, with their propellers facing inward, because he
claimed that he wanted to protect them against ‘acts of sabotage.’ Rear
Admiral Robert A. Theobold, USN, Retired, author of The Final Secret
of Pearl Harbor, and Col. Curtis B. Dall, the son-in-law of FDR, in an
interview with Anthony Hilder for his book Warlords of Washington,
admitted that they knew about the Pearl Harbor attack before it
occurred. Theobold, the Commander of all the destroyers at Pearl
Harbor, said in his book, that Roosevelt knew about the attack 21
hours before it happened. So the result of this positioning of the
aircraft, made it difficult for them to get out of the circle, and up in the
air, because they didn’t have a reverse gear. Theobold wrote: “An